Samsung Galaxy S4 in India

Also Tumblr’s launch on Windows 8 and an app to make you prettier

If you’re part of the clan that firmly snubs Apple and their products, Samsung’s new flagship is now available in India. The Samsung Galaxy S4, which is now direct competition to the HTC One and the Sony Xperia Z, is priced at Rs. 41,500. With looks strikingly similar to its younger sibling, the phone that doesn’t need to be touched sports a 5-inch, 1080p full-HD with an octa-core 1.6GHz processor and powered by Android 4.2.2. It is available in variants of 16, 24 and 32GB of internal memory, which can be extended via its microSD slot. The smartphone also features a 13MP rear and 2MP front camera with Full HD recording at 30fps. The stand out features include: Dual Shot – it merges images from both cameras in a post card effect, Cinema Photo – takes videos while you decide what remains static, and Eraser Shot – lets you get rid of photobombers. Not to mention Air View and Air Gesture – a feature that let you wave your finger above the screen to accomplish several tasks.

Tumblr on Windows 8

After Twitter, Pandora et al, Windows 8 has now added Tumblr to its steadily growing app store. The Windows 8 version of this app lets you post “just about anything from just about anywhere — pictures, quotes, music, videos, chats, links, and your random musings,” according to the post on Microsoft’s Windows Phone blog. The app will fully support GIFs and supports speech recognition so that users can dictate posts to it. Meanwhile, Tumblr has doled out an updated version for iOS devices. The update will allow users to share posts to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.

App to make you look beautiful… in images

Tired of assigning a generic snapshot to your social media profile because you can’t be bothered with finding a better one? Say hello to Pixtr – an app that automatically corrects the blemishes of a person in an image, and magically beautifies. Created by Aviv Gadot, co-founder and CEO of the Israeli start-up, it purportedly stemmed from his wanting to appease his wife who wasn’t happy with the quality of the images he was posting of her on Facebook. Pixtr apparently uses face recognition algorithms that scan the image and perfect its imperfections. Interesting.

An iPhone 6 maybe?

Tickets for Apple’s 2013 edition of Worldwide Developers Conference a.k.a WWDC, which will take place from June 10th to 14th at Moscone West in San Francisco, were sold out in three minutes. WWDC is Apple’s conference for iOS and OS X developers to attend educational sessions, spend lab time engaging with hundreds of Apple engineers, and socialize with their peers. Could this imply an impending iDevice update? Hmmm.